Huffington Post Slam of Ted Cruz Accidentally Proves Him Right

by Tom Knighton at PJMedia:

“Former presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz knows how to ruffle the Left’s feathers. While blasting the Democrats for their claims that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is racist, Cruz pointed out that claims of racism and actual racism have always been the bread and butter of the American left.

Cruz cited the Dixiecrats, the Southern Democrats who vehemently opposed desegregation, as evidence of the Democratic Party’s racist roots. Hilariously, the Huffington Post went on the defensive:

However, historians say the KKK and its founding had nothing to do with what Cruz called the “modern Democratic Party.”

PolitiFact looked into the accusation when it came up in 2013 and called it false.

The KKK was indeed made up largely of Democrats in the South after the Civil War, as most whites in the South were Democrats, but it was not started by the party, historians told the website………” Please read on below:

Based on new numbers from the past year, a total of nine states are now projected to lose seats in 2020 (AL, IL, MI, MN, NY, OH, PA, RI and WV). …

The domestic migration pattern of the past year paints a stark picture. A quintet of states (New York, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey) lost more than 500,000 residents in total this past year. Each state ranks in the bottom 15 in the Rich States, Poor StatesEconomic Outlook. By contrast, four of the five states experiencing the largest levels of domestic migration growth (Florida, Texas, Washington, Arizona, and North Carolina) landed in the top 15 for economic outlook. The only outlier in that group, Washington, is one of the nine states that avoid levying a personal income tax on state residents. …

…. Americans continue to vote with their feet – and they are voting strongly in favor of states who create an environment conducive to economic growth and opportunity.